cover image A Beach Wish

A Beach Wish

Shelley Noble. Morrow, $15.99 trade paper (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-267598-9

Noble (Lighthouse Beach) tells the tumultuous story of a daughter caught in the middle of pain and family strife. Zoe Bascombe and her brothers are shocked when their mother’s will asks Zoe to travel alone to a beach they’ve never heard of, Wind Chime Beach, to spread her ashes. After arriving, Zoe learns her mom lived there as a teen and was deeply in love with a man named Lee, witwh whom she had a daughter named Eve. But her mom’s biggest secret is that Lee is also Zoe’s dad. While coping with finding a new family, Zoe is also caught in the middle of a family battle full of secrets that started the day her mother left Wind Chime Beach. Readers will appreciate the uplifting end to a complicated, heartrending story of love lost and anger relinquished at last. Agent: Kevan Lyon, Marsal Lyon Literary. (July)